It appears that Silicon Knights’ reasons for the suit are that they didn’t receive a functional version of the engine until November of 2006, which was “far too late for time and cost-sensitive projects like SK’s videogames.” This late delivery is, as Silicon Knights is concerned, the reason for the game’s bad showing at E3 2006.

Long story short, they believe that Epic used the licensing money to make Gears of War, while apparently not offering as much support as should be expected from such a deep engine. Right now, they seem to be removing the engine from Too Human due to the lawsuit.

This is a weird one, not only because I have no idea how to work the Unreal Engine, making any conclusions I come to groundless, but also because Epic makes both the Unreal Engine and games using the Unreal Engine. That places them firmly between a rock and a hard place in this lawsuit.

In my opinion, I’d think that they would take at least some of those funds and work on their games, then release a mass update to the Unreal engine with the tweaks they were able to figure out while working with the engine on their own titles.

This doesn’t seem the case though, so the only thing to do is wait this one out. Silicon Knights still seem hopeful that this will be resolved out of court, and for the sake of Too Human and Epic’s reputation, I do too.

About the Author

Deejay Knight, Editor/FounderDeejay has been a gamer since the Atari 2600, has wrestled–and defeated–alligators with only his toes, and once aligned all the planets in the Solar System by uttering the words "Coo Coo Ka-Choo". In his sleep.
He currently bides his time behind the scenes here at GAMINGtruth.com, streaming at http://www.twitch.tv/deejayknight and teaching.

I’m also not too sure what to really think about this, but Silicon Knights sounds whiny. I mean there are other developers using the same engine and have not sued Epic. It may be that they are trying to point blame because they are trying to cover their own problems with Too Human. We all know they had and very underwhelming showing at last years E3, and maybe they still have not recovered to make a great game. I want to have high hopes for the company and the game, but for now I’m more with Epic.

psyguy411

I’m also not too sure what to really think about this, but Silicon Knights sounds whiny. I mean there are other developers using the same engine and have not sued Epic. It may be that they are trying to point blame because they are trying to cover their own problems with Too Human. We all know they had and very underwhelming showing at last years E3, and maybe they still have not recovered to make a great game. I want to have high hopes for the company and the game, but for now I’m more with Epic.

Liquid_Mind

“they believe that Epic used the licensing money to make Gears of War”

They paid Epic for the engine…isn’t it up to Epic to decide what to spend that money on?

I think Too Human looks awesome, but this lawsuit seems to be pretty baseless. Can’t we all just get along?

Liquid_Mind

“they believe that Epic used the licensing money to make Gears of War”

They paid Epic for the engine…isn’t it up to Epic to decide what to spend that money on?

I think Too Human looks awesome, but this lawsuit seems to be pretty baseless. Can’t we all just get along?